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“There are many exciting things you could do that are illegal or not allowed by regulation,” Page said. “And that’s good, we don’t want to change the world. But maybe we can set aside a part of the world.”
— Larry Page at Google I/O

Newsflash – Pharmaceutical companies have been doing this for decades in Africa and Asia, Larry. Its called field testing on illiterate human subjects. There is a large part of the world that is already ‘set aside’.

Funnily enough there’s a movie coming out about what happens when you take this thinking to its logical extreme. — ‘Elysium’

Where the planet is ‘set aside’ for the poor to have things tested on, and the rich live separately, with all the good stuff.